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Denique alia est ratio declamatorum, et alia debet esse doctorum. Illi elucubratæ declamationis pompam totis facundiæ suae viribus concupiscunt, isti sobrio usitatoque sermone Christi gloriam quaerunt. Illi rebus inanibus pretiosa verborum induunt ornamenta; isti veracibus sententiis ornant, et d commendant verba simplicia. Illi affectant suorum sen suum deformitatem tanquam velamine quodam pha lerati sermonis abscondere; isti eloquiorum suorum rusticitatem student pretiosis sensibus venustare. llli totam laudem suarn in favore vulgi, isti in virtute Dei constituunt. Illi plausibiliter dicunt, et nihil auditoribus suis declamando e proficiunt;
總之,演說家的作風是一回事,教師的作風該是另一回事。前者以其口才的全力,貪戀那煞費苦心、雕琢過的演說之華麗;後者以樸實慣常的言語尋求基督的榮耀。前者給空洞之物披上貴重的言辭裝飾;後者以真實的見解裝飾、並推介樸素的言語。前者矯飾地想用某種華麗言辭的帳幕,遮掩他們思想的醜陋;後者竭力以寶貴的意涵,使他們言語的粗鄙顯為優美。前者把一切讚美寄託於群眾的喜好,後者寄託於神的德能。前者說話博取喝采,演說卻對聽者毫無益處;
In short, the manner of declaimers is one thing, and that of teachers ought to be another. The former, with all the powers of their eloquence, covet the pomp of laboriously polished declamation; the latter, with sober and ordinary speech, seek the glory of Christ. The former clothe empty things with precious ornaments of words; the latter adorn truthful sentiments and commend simple words. The former affect to hide the deformity of their thoughts as though with a kind of veil of bedizened speech; the latter strive to beautify the rusticity of their utterances with precious meanings. The former place all their praise in the favor of the crowd, the latter in the power of God. The former speak so as to win applause, and profit nothing to their hearers by declaiming;
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isti usitatis sermonibus docent, et imitatores suos instituunt. Quia rationem [forte orationem] suam nulla fucatæ compositionis f affectatione corrumpunt.
後者以慣常的言語施教,並造就效法他們的人——因為他們不以任何矯飾、做作的言辭結構敗壞自己的言語。
the latter teach with ordinary discourse, and form their imitators—because they do not corrupt their speech with any affectation of artificial composition.